We're Still Here, We Still Have Each Other

[induality]

[It takes Fukawa some time to pull herself together but when she does-- she moves with a purpose. Everyone will find a note in practiced writing:]

Though all we've be through today was awful, and you might not want to face it-- you're not facing it alone. There will be food and drink in the VIP Lounge. And company. Whatever your feelings are now, it's okay. I won't tell you want to think or how to feel. But you don't have to carry it alone.

- Touko Lucis Caelum

[True to her word, she worked hard to make snacks and light warm foods for everyone as well as drinks-- alcoholic and otherwise. Everyone is welcome. She even stops by the information desk to extend an invitation to SIS.]

Comments

[motherfucking_ghost]

I trust you. I trusted your plan. Even if I could've gotten everyone to vote the right way, and then even if we could've gotten everyone together, and then even if the cube could've taken us all somewhere...something would've happened. We still have the armbands, the PIPs. Could've probably just killed us off with those anyway.

I hate...all of this. And I'm probably gonna feel like shit later. Shittier. But I'm determined to trust you to help get all these people out.

[kingshaming]

[Xander walks over, face stern... and holds out his arm]

Very well. Then until we escape here, you have my support in all things.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[Grasp? Grasp!]

With you 'til the end of the line.

...About PAL. Or should I save that for talking to everyone? It wasn't really...a whole lot more than what we've gotten out of him before, just...it's not good.

[kingshaming]

How not good is not good?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Memory of his creator got erased or otherwise removed, and fighting hurts him. Bad. Which is why we only get short bursts.

[kingshaming]

It hurts him? Gods...and he speaks in many ways like a child...

We need to decide if it's time to be open with everything we've learned.

[He doesn't want to risk SIS being outed, but the others are working in the dark too. There's no good option]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Meeting. Monday. Sundays are...never good. [and it's a holiday] Let them recover, get everyone together. [Including SIS.] Our friend's been trying to find where the bodies are being kept anyway, I wanna know if something's come up yet.

[kingshaming]

Alright. It's a plan at least.

...also, did PAL say anything about your condition in his message? I know the other PAL said he didn't know but...

[motherfucking_ghost]

Uh...I mean, that's when he was saying he didn't know about Kip? Hold on, it was phrased like a computer. Error: Missing data. Error: Kip not found.

......I'm a fucking moron, of course it's his fucking PAK.

This, uh, this thing Kip wore. Like, when he wasn't looking like a human, he's really this little green alien who wears this...metal...PAK thing on his back, helps him do shit, spider legs, creepy shit. I think it might be a part of him? I'm not sure. But I got that thing out of the duty-free and...maybe spending time around it is somehow making Kip's personality rub off on me? It's only started I think since I got it, and, y'know, it's Kip's, so I've kept it. And I've kept it in my room.

...He was very much about sex.